The third one to have been involved in the crime did not...

The third one to have been involved in the crime did not have a wife and so I punished him with eighty lashes. The fourth was a slave and therefore I subjected him to half the legal punishment (of eighty lashes), while the fifth one was poor of intellect due to which I subjected him to the discretionary punishment (some lashes).” Hearing the explanation Umar exclaimed: “O' Abul Hasan!

May it never happen that I have to live with the people when you are not around (to help me)!”[^6] Interpretation of the Dream Ibn Sirin was an extremely good-looking and elegant youth, and a cloth-merchant by profession. Once it so happened that a woman became enchanted with his looks; she expressed her desire to purchase cloth from him upon the condition that he should deliver it to her house, whereupon she would hand him the money.

As he reached her house and entered it, she immediately bolted the door and invited him to commit fornication. Aghast, the youth said: “I seek refuge in Allah”, and then proceeded to lecture her about the reproach associated with the obscene act. However when he observed that his words failed to have any effect upon the woman, he decided to resort to deception in order to extricate himself from his quandary. He sought her permission to use the lavatory.

Procuring her permission he entered the lavatory, dirtied himself with excrement and then approached her. The woman, seeing him in that odious state, felt revolted and promptly turned him out of her house. Due to this abstinence on his part with respect to fornication, Allah graced him with the science of interpretation of dreams.

[^7] Prophet Yahya’s Murderer was an Illegitimate Child During the time of Prophet Yahya (a.s), there lived a king by the name of Hirodis, who was fond of him (a.s) and considered the Prophet to be a just and righteous person. There was an adulteress with whom this king had been having an illicit relationship; as she became old, she began to ornament her daughter and present her before the king, who eventually fell in love with her and desired to marry her.

He questioned Prophet Yahya (a.s) about the issue who, on the basis of the religion of Prophet Isa (a.s), declared it to be unlawful. Consequently the adulteress harboured resentment and malice towards Prophet Yahya (a.s). One day, observing the king to be in a state of intoxication, she adorned her daughter and sent her before him.